Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#11

Post by izietto » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:32 PM UTC

There should be a "Both" option IMHO

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#12

Post by jrslv » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:35 PM UTC

I'm using astralapp.com, which is a nice application for viewing, searching and tagging my favs.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#13

Post by Naushad » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

Bookmarking, for liking, i "Watch"

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#14

Post by jqueryin » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:37 PM UTC

Interesting poll. I can only imagine you have a use case for building something. I'm in the same boat.

If anybody is interested on working on a Github star related project with me, let me know. It'll have a huge impact on how individuals use Github. I intend on this being for-profit with Stripe payments.

I've been working on it in stealth as my pet project but it's closing in on being publicly available.

It uses Laravel 4.2, MySQL, supervisord, and beanstalkd for those interested.

Contact info in my profile.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by popasmurf » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

This already exists, check out http://astralapp.com/

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#16

Post by arihant » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

I feel stupid. I never even thought of it as a bookmarking tool. When I have to bookmark, I just bookmark the repo page in the browser. I never thought of GitHub stars as anything more than a "Kudos, Good job" tool.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

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Post by bnycum » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:38 PM UTC

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

Here's what I did because I had the same thoughts. I just save everything to delicious as a bookmark, then first tag everything with 'github' then any other tags after that.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#18

Post by 4ad » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:41 PM UTC

None. I never click on stars.

Projects that I care about have developer mailing lists, and mailing lists where people review and discuss patches. I subscribe to those.

Projects that don't have that and only rely on GitHub are toy/non-serious projects that I don't care about.

For bookmarking I have actual bookmarks.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#19

Post by subv3rsion » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

Mostly for bookmarking.

Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#20

Post by nezo » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

I mainly use it as a like button, but if I'm really interested by a project I might instead start Watching it.